Special Issues

Wrong Tax, Right Tax

Opinion
As the Jan. 19 start of the legislative session looms over us like an ugly, unstoppable avalanche, lawmakers appear to have signaled their distaste for at least one unappetizing budget fix: reinstating a tax on...

CCA's Psyche Out

Opinion
After the Center for Contemporary Arts’ board of directors informed staff just before Christmas that the venerable nonprofit arts organization would shut its doors at the end of 2009, it hollered “p...

Esprit D'Escalier

Opinion
You know when you think of that perfect comeback a few minutes after you should have used it? There’s no real term for it in English, other than feeling sorry for yourself. But the French, of course, have...

Going Once!

Opinion
Clyde James Aragon is an Albuquerque humor writer whose work has appeared in national magazines, as well as many Southwestern newspapers and magazines. Here, he tackles "How to finally get rich from writin...

Puritan Parks

Opinion
A short, not-so-sweet piece of civic legislation scooted through the Santa Fe City Council this month. Ordinance 2009-52 amended the law regarding the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages on city property...

Invisible Bills

Opinion
Beginning Dec. 15, bills can be pre-filed for the state legislative session that begins in January. The anatomy of the session will develop as the goals and motives of lawmakers become clear. This even-year, 30...

Locals Don't Care

Opinion
Following a sudden tide of rumors, Locals Care confirmed to SFR on Nov. 23 that it had ceased operations. Two days later, it issued a formal public notice that declared Locals Care had terminated its efforts ea...

Make It a Double

Opinion
It was early and so was I, but I figured that I’d enjoy a well-needed drink at the empty bar. The bartender handed me a menu and I scanned it. The night before, some other friends had served me a fancy ru...

Unchangeable

Opinion
We don’t deserve Zozobra. Through accident, ego, artifice, multiple cultural thefts and genuine art-party-fueled abandon, Santa Fe is home to probably the most basic, pagan, ritualistic event in the Unite...